The Power Of Nightmares (BBC)

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Was there not a thread on this before? I thought so but found nothing.

Missed it first time round but finally managed to catch a repeat of the second episode last night and was gripped. The choice of narrator helps a lot, Geoffrey Palmer's (I presume) authoriative but human tone explaining the motives and reasoning of governments, neocons and Islamists alike.

Q&A from the series producer Adam Curtis here - note: Will the programme be shown internationally, in America or online?

We are very keen that the programmes are made widely available including in America and although the main networks have shown little interest

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

no DVD release planned because of the range of footage required to clear. a great shame as it seems that this is something everyone should see.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the musical choices are really good, he (and his team) just knows his shit. i have no idea how they pull that kind of thing together -- how much footage has to be gone through to find the 'right' bit -- if you think about how many diift news orgs cover the same stuff. it's the avalanches of facumentary!

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i need the torrents, and bad

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Here y'go:

The Power Of Nightmares/Adam Curtis

― Richard C (avoid80), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been taping it.

playing brian eno throughout - classik!

It overlaps a bit with his other series on freud. that theme of society and its control reappears.

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the bit I couldn't figue out was in the first part where that neocon wz trying to distort the threat of the soviets: "if there is no evidence for weapons doesn't mean it isn't there" like it was really logical, sensible thing to say. The conviction he had in that. It wasn't like he wz trying to concoiusly create a myth to fool the people so much just that he wz really paranoid but i need to watch it again.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

why that didn't show up in searching i don't know

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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